Green Building and Sustainable Development: The Practical Legal Guide

Although they may disagree on particulars, most persons agree that human global impact is changing the world climate. Sustainability attempts to mitigate that change by altering human behavior. This guide for legal professionals helps them to fully understand green building concepts and sustainability in order to help their organizations work within legal and regulatory boundaries.

This book can be found in HECSA Library:
Green Building and Sustainable Development: The Practical Legal Guide
Jonathan E. Furr et al.
KF 5505.G735 2009

The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal

When the Panama Canal opened, the world was changed in terms of global trade and military power. Many see the canal as a triumph of the United States, but its effects were much truly much more extensive. The Big Ditch offers a look at the impacts of large infrastructure projects, American overseas interventions on institutional development and the ability of governments to run companies.

This book can be found in HECSA Library:
The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
F 1569 .C2 M157 2011

Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design

What makes a great design? Humans tend to build success by examination of failure, not by imitating success. This book shows that by carefully anticipating—and thus averting—failure, invention and design become more successful. Through examination of spectacular engineering failures, the author shows that modeling designs solely based on past successes is the surest road to failure.














This book can be found in HECSA Library:
Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design
Henry Petroski
TA 174 .P4739 2006